Description

Description of a book.

Examples

Are you a librarian? Then you may consider to markup your books offer using Schema.org concepts. If you are a book seller then you have to consider your books as product. But it is possible to markup content as a Book and as a Product in the same time? The answer is positive. Try do do as in our second example. Check also official Schema.org book markup example.

If you may have readers reviews you want to show then you have to appropriately add (inside the Book scope) some of them

<div itemprop="reviews"><div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Review"><span itemprop="name">book review - Around the World in Eighty Days </span> - by
<span itemprop="author"><span itemscope="http://schema.org/Person"><ahref="http://insidebooks.blogspot.com/2007/08/book-of-books-around-world.html" itemprop="url">Inside Books</a></span></span>,
<span itemprop="datePublished"content="2007-08-26">Sunday, August 26, 2007</span><div itemprop="reviewRating"><span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Rating"><span itemprop="ratingValue">5</span>/
<span itemprop="bestRating">5</span>stars
</span></div><div itemprop="description">
This is a great book and comes from a writer with a solid canon of pacey adventure
stories. But what you miss in the film and cartoon versions is the sheer scale of
the effort of Jules Verne’s vision. He must have sat there with maps, guide books
and numerous steamer and train timetables to be able not only to map the journey
round the world but also factor in the numerous diversions that Phileas Fogg and
company have to take.
</div><div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Review">
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</div></div>